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No Resting Place

01/12/1951

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1hr 20min

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STORY

The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the film is a lightly fictionalized study of that country's itinerant workmen. Michael Gough plays tinker Alec Kyle, whose life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a man. Kyle spends the rest of the film evading Guard Mannigan (Noel Purcell), a civil servant who relies on instinct rather than scientific deduction to get his man. Without ever trying to elicit sympathy for his characters, director Rotha manages to compellingly detail the miserable living and working conditions of Ireland's nomad artisans.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Michael Gough
  • Noel Purcell
  • Jack MacGowran
  • Eithne Dunne
  • Brian O'Higgins

    Directors

  • Paul Rotha
  • Michael Orrom
  • Gerard Healy

INFORMATION

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LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Michael Gough

Alec Kyle

Noel Purcell

Guard Mannigan

Jack MacGowran

Billy Kyle

Eithne Dunne

Meg Kyle

Brian O'Higgins

Tom Kyle

Maureen O'Sullivan

Nan Kyle

Diana Campbell

Bess Kyle

Christy Lawrence

Paddy

Esther O'Connor

Tom's Daughter

Billy O'Gorman

Gamekeeper